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Bat Population Status And Roost Selection Of Tri-Colored Bats In The Great Smoky Mountains National Park In The Era Of White-Nose Syndrome, Grace Marie Carpenter
Bat Population Status And Roost Selection Of Tri-Colored Bats In The Great Smoky Mountains National Park In The Era Of White-Nose Syndrome, Grace Marie Carpenter
Masters Theses
The ongoing spread of white-nose syndrome is causing devastating declines range-wide for certain North American bat species. Baseline population data that would help mangers monitor bat populations in the face of WNS is lacking. Likewise, knowledge of summer roosts, a limiting resource for tri-colored bats (Perimyotis subflavus), a species threatened by WNS, is lacking in the southern portion of their range. In our study, we investigated the effect that WNS has had on a population of tricolored bats in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, TN-NC. We also characterized summer roosts for the species at the microhabitat and …